Santo Domingo. RD
Jack Veneno, the “World Ball Champion,” has his boots warmed up again to fight cancer for the second time (now pancreatic, the first was the prostate).
“I put on my boots again to fight cancer … The hardest fight is this, I had to get dressed again to fight,” he told El Vido del Mediodía (Color Vision). ).
Doina Tatica’s son, one of his nicknames, remembered that when he faced his first cancer, the prostate, he threw in the towel, but God performed a miracle.
“I didn’t see anyone, but I know I felt they handed it to me (God’s hand) and he said, ‘This fight is two. I didn’t see anyone, I just heard the voice.’
Then he added: “I hope that the Lord will make a couple with me again, me with him, so that we can succeed. Because without God there is nothing, after God there is no one else, I tell you that I have gone through a lot.”
With a broken voice, he thanked the government of Luis Abinader and the Dominican people for their support.
Jack Veneno began his checks and tests at the Rosa Emilia Sánchez Pérez de Tavares National Cancer Institute, a hospital specializing in the diagnosis and treatment of cancer in the Dominican Republic.
Tony Peña, from the Social Cabinet of the Presidency, assured that “everything the World Ball Champion needs will be provided by the government of Luis Abinader”.
For the government, he commented, it is “an obligation” to help him because “he is a man who has given so much joy to the Dominican people” and it is a responsibility to reward him with health, so that he remains for many years. .
Rafael Antonio Sánchez on May 2, 1942 (he is 78 years old), is the most popular professional fighter in the country and one of the most famous Dominicans.
Together with Relámpago Hernández, his eternal rival, they led the Dominican struggle to levels reached so far in the 1980s and 1990s.